The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
PURSUIT OF ALBION^235 wrote a German traveler circa 1800, pales before that of the Briton, as the shadow before the light."^7 An ...
(^236) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Karl Marx saw the British experience as an expression of historical logic. Capitalist p ...
PURSUIT OF ALBION 237 alization kept the British example before them, whether as model or countermodel. To understand them and t ...
238 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS What our critic alludes to here is what I shall call "the medieval legacy"—what European ( ...
PURSUIT OF ALBION 239 freedom of movement. Eastward lay the lands of estate bondage ( Guts- unUrtànigkeit) and personal (bodily) ...
240 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Much of this was already breaking down in the eighteenth century. Still, one found persist ...
PURSUIT OF ALBION^241 communes with the right to define the status of their inhabitants made all the difference. Such cities and ...
(^242) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS rise of a private factory sector shows. By 1860 an estimated 4 million people were work ...
PURSUIT OF ALBION^243 ond, the priority of moral criteria over commercial. So long as a crafts man did his work conscientiously ...
(^244) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Toward the end of the Old Regime, in 1762, the French govern ment formally recognized ...
PURSUIT OF ALBION^245 order. Besides, the rising commercial and industrial bourgeoisie was in no mood to return to the Middle Ag ...
(^246) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Equally costly were the delays for inspection and sometimes transship- ment—a form of j ...
PURSUIT OF ALBION^247 and in 1870. The old Hanseatic cities of Frankfurt and Hamburg, rich in history and pride, yelped with pai ...
(^248) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS The significance of institutional and cultural impediments to develop ment shows well ...
PURSUIT OF ALBION^249 Scandinavia was ready. Even in die eighteenth century, one sees the promise of later enterprise: the machi ...
(^250) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS All these countries were poor, handicapped by meager, highly vari able rainfall that r ...
PURSUIT OF ALBION^251 under Habsburg rule) and in and around Genoa. Venice and Florence, once flourishing industrial as well as ...
(^252) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS ernment wooed foreigners, paying them to set up factories or to settle and work in Russ ...
PURSUIT OF ALBION^253 It was not resources or money that made the difference; nor mistreat ment by outsiders. It was what lay i ...
(^254) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS but the soldier had to pay out of pocket for grease; so, little or no grease. Bullets w ...
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